Asterisk is a company? This is news to me Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Steve Totaro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Steve Totaro <[email protected]> > wrote: > See comments inline. > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM, linux guy <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm about to start building my asterisk server and I can't seem to find > anything that discusses the pros and cons of installing the OS (Fedora 15) as > console only or GUI, ie install KDE as well. > > > If you want an OS that is going to be supported a year from now, don't use > Fedora. > > Go for CentOS which is essentially Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora is pretty much > beta RHEL. It's EOL is one year from my understanding. > > You want to install the very minimum as most people would agree, why do you > think you need a GUI. > > Best practice is to only install the bare minimum on a server. > > So, other than a bit of disk space, is there any reason why I shouldn't > install KDE when I set it up ? > > It has and will cause issues. I have installed KDE or whatever but booted to > init 3 for a couple of machines. I could go to init 5 if I had to, but I > never did had to. I don't see a single pro, but there are many cons. > > What benefit do you get from KDE? Why do you want it. Is this just going to > be an asterisk server or a desktop? > > > Is there any great disadvantage to running the server in init level 5 (ie > KDE, xorg, etc) running in the background, but not being logged in, versus > init level 3 ? (Or whatever they call these things these days..., ie F15 uses > systemd...) > > FWIW, my server hardware will sit on a server rack in the utility room. I > might drag a display and keyboard down there once in a while to troubleshoot > and/or do maintenance, but mostly I'd ssh in and probably use a remote > desktop app to work on it. > > How does remote desktop help you over an SSH CLI? > > FWIW, I'm OK doing things via the CLI, but sometimes its really nice to have > graphical tools. > > > Ok, I can understand, I used to be like this for a while. I am a huge fan of > Webmin for a GUI. It allows for almost everything and for me, it is better > than KDE or anything else. It is just a webpage with tools attached. No big > potential problem there. > > I look forward to your input. > > Thanks > > > I have been using Vyatta (paid for with phone support.) > > It makes for the most powerful Asterisk platform you can imagine. There is a > learning curve but I love what I have put together. There are howtos > everywhere and if you buy licenses, you get excellent support and online > training courses. > > It is a very firewall/Router. It handles everything from OpenVPN, awesome > security features, IPS, and even QoS, wireshark. > > I put webmin and NTOP on these machines as well. Vyatta has become my new > platform for Asterisk. > > Check it out http://www.vyatta.org/documentation > > There is very little you cannot do, but don't have to use the features if you > don't want to. > > Vyatta is also a company like Asterisk. Vyatta is the baby of former bigtime > corporate Cisco guys. Asterisk is the baby of former Adtran execs. > > Thanks, > Steve T > > Thanks, > Steve T > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
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